Analyzing The Sherlock Story 'Man With The Twisted Lip'

“…and to listen with a mocking smile to the general chorus of misplaced congratulation.”(The adventure of the Devils foot)

Sherlock Holmes novels are the face of mystery, featuring literature’s greatest detective, but one might ask, how does The Hound of the Baskervilles fit into the genre’s common conventions? Mystery being a sub genre of genre fiction novels, it has many common conventions found throughout the majority of the novels. In the average mystery, the plot focuses around a crime, commonly a murder or a robbery, in which the culprit must be found by the protagonist. The crime in Sherlock Holmes and the Hound of the Baskervilles is that Sir Charles Baskerville has been murdered, or frightened to the point of death. Generally the protagonist who solves the mystery, has a dominant character flaw and/or defining characteristic which aids them in cracking

Sherlock Jr. (Buster Keaton, the U.S, 1924) depicts a cinema projectionist and janitor who’s studying and dreaming about becoming a detective like Sherlock Holmes. The main character, Sherlock Jr. falls in love with a beautiful girl but another man shows up as his competition while he’s trying to win the girl’s heart. His rival intrudes on one of Sherlock Jr.’s dates with the girl and makes the girl’s father think that Sherlock stole a watch. Feeling tired and depressed at work, Sherlock falls asleep during showing of Hearts and Pearls, and dreams of his girlfriend as the heroine, and his rival as the thief who steals the pearls. Sherlock himself becomes a detective to solve the case. Though short compared to modern feature films, this

I believe Larson included this information about Holmes to continue the suspense that has been previously built upon Holmes’s character. Personally, without already knowing that Holmes is a serial killer I do not think I would be able to guess, due to Larson’s way of characterizing and explaining how “amazing” Holmes is. In previous chapters, Holmes was described as extremely handsome, trustworthy, and he had women constantly falling at his feet. Holmes has the characteristics of a celebrity, and by including pieces of information about his love for babies and animals Larson builds the idea that Holmes is not one to be suspected of being a serial killer. I believe that Myrta’s opinion and view of Holmes is very believable, due to the fact that

In the stories “Story of an Hour”, “Everyday Use”, “The Necklace”, and “The Lottery” it is evident that irony was quite a large part of the short story. There is situational irony, which is when the situation turns out differently than expected. Also, dramatic irony is present, which is when you as a reader knows more than the character. The authors seem to base their whole story around irony to surprise their readers.

In the Sherlock Holmes stories “The Red-Headed League” and “A Scandal in Bohemia” Sir Arthur Conan Doyle explores mysteries through the eyes of Dr. Watson, Sherlock Holmes’s assistant. Holmes is able to amaze the people around him with his deductive abilities and can quickly determine aspects of a person’s life by just looking at them. This allows him to solve mysteries that others cannot wrap their heads around. He uses his skill to first help the King of Bohemia recover a picture of him with a former lover. Next, he investigates the disappearance of the Red-Headed League. In both of these mysteries he experiences a unique challenge due to the intelligence of his opponents and the unusual situation surrounding the case. The cunning and cleverness of Holmes, Irene Adler and the conspirators of the Red-Headed League are shown in the stories “The Red-Headed League” and “A Scandal in Bohemia”.

A mystery story would not be considered a mystery without the use of suspense. Suspense is the hook that keeps the reader attached to the story and eager to read its contents fully. Without it, there would be no reason to want to solve the puzzle created by the author. Robert Louis Stevenson’s short story, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, does a good job of using this literary element in a way that makes his story interesting and brings light to common Victorian behaviors. Dr. Jekyll’s discovery allowed him to quite literally separate the good and evil within himself into separate people, which led to some serious consequences for him.

"The Pardoners Tale" is a very interesting story that contains personification involving death and includes irony as the story plays out. It is a story that makes you want to read until the end just to see how it plays out and the way irony becomes used. While you read the story you can notice irony very easily and with death being the main key to the story, it is not hard to miss. Geoffrey Chaucer makes frequent use of personification and irony in his popular story "The Pardoners Tale."

Victor Frankenstein has isolated himself from the outside world because he is so obsessed with his creation of the Monster he becomes ill, malnourished and sleep deprived. The countless hours he has put into his experiment has pulled him away from any and all outside communication. ”Every night I was oppressed by a slow fever, and I became nervous to a most painful degree; the fall of a leaf startled me, and I shunned my fellow creatures as if I had been guilty of a crime.” (Shelley 41). Victor is explaining in this quote that he has not been a part for society for some time now and that he feels nervous that it starts to cause him pain. He has pulled himself away from society because he feels that he has committed a crime and he dose not want them to know about it. This is one of Victors symbolic flaws that has brought himself to look at his creation as a Monster.

A very dull and boring story can be made into a great story simply by adding in something that is unexpected to happen. When the unexpected is used in literature it is known as irony. An author uses irony to shock the reader by

Father Brown mysteries, written by G.K. Chesterton from 1910 through 1935, are a series of short stories which followed an unworldly priest in 19th century Britain, who solved mysteries. A Morbid Taste for Bones, is a novel, written by Ellis Peters around 1970, about a worldly monk in 1137, who traveled to a Welsh village in order to retrieve the bones of Saint Winifred. This led him to solve a bloody murder. Although these stories were written with different styles and at different times, they both included quintessential characteristics, which make them a timeless read. What makes a mystery worth reading?

The novel Frankenstein, written by Mary Shelley, is a gothic novel about a creature that achieves humanity through his emotional feelings and intellectual thoughts. Throughout the novel, Shelly demonstrates that the goodwill of a person dominates his or her overall disposition. The reader feels sympathy for the characters when they suffer through hardships and tragedies because of their redeeming qualities that reflect a positive light on mankind. Shelly develops the novel by portraying the characters in a positive light through the compassion, altruism, and innocence that is displayed in the actions of Caroline Beaufort, Henry Clerval, and Justine Moritz.

The story I read was very entertaining and a great mystery, it was the Red-Headed League by Arthur Conan Doyle. A classic mystery featuring Sherlock Holmes, this classic story featured a society that had an opening for a red headed man, not light red, not strawberry red, but a real genuine carrot top!

In The Man with the Twisted Lip the relationship types greatly varied as they do today, but the content and how people felt within them wasnt discussed very much. In the Victorian era a woman's needs, or wants weren't really attended to because a marriage was almost like a business deal between families rather than a thing based on romantics. Marriages were extremely binding in the Victorian era and divorce was not an option for most, and because of this you were most likely stuck with your significant other, and the original vows of “for better or worse” were strictly upheld. Unlike today where you could divorce and remarry however much as you please. Today it is hard to hide anything, especially from a significant other. Back then times made it easier to be discrete, and dishonest with a spouse, and the marriage was again a business deal, therefore it was serious, never for play or feelings, The story did not imply anything about being happy and honest versus being unhappy and dishonest within relationships. The story did not really emphasize the correlation between the two, or the status of being in a relationship all together.

Throughout mystery genre books there is a feeling given off to the readers. Feelings that can be stimulated by what is happening or even the kind of people that are around in a specific scene. However the most influential is the geographical setting of the story. This allows the author to create suspense and allow the readers to think or react in any way from feeling fear to wanting to know more about the situation. All of this is done by the fact that the geographical setting can create the mood, imagery and as stated before suspense. One series of mysterious stories that use the geographical setting to play a role in the mysterious feeling is “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes” by Arthur Conan Doyle. Arthur Conan Doyle uses the setting to